A group of land guards purported to be acting on
the instructions of one Ayitey Canada, one of the claimants to the Ga Mantse stool, early Friday morning invaded the Ga Mantse Palace locked the main gate to the Palace.
The group who were transported to the place in buses whiles others sat on motorbikes, were holding machetes and other offensive weapons.
The land guards also locked the boys-quarters of the Palace which houses some of the caretakers of the palace.
Mr Clement Nii Tackie Teiko, one of the Caretakers at the Palace, speaking to the Ghana News Agency (GNA), said when they woke up around 6 am they found that the compound of the palace had been invaded by a group of young men while the main gate had been locked.
He said they confronted some of the young men and later went out of the Palace and saw that another group of landguards had been stationed near the Dans Bar Filling station.
He said when he saw the situation he got closer to the people and saw the elder brothers of Ayitey Canada coordinating the land guards and one man he believed to be a national security operative making calls to some radio stations that the Ga Mantse have been destooled.
He said seeing what was happening, he made a call to the Police and within some few minutes some Policemen from the Kaneshie Division arrived in a Nissan pickup vehicle and ordered the land guards to open the main gate of the Palace.
Nii Tackie Teiko also said police reinforcement were brought later from the Accra Regional Headquarters and the land guards were ordered to leave the forecourt of the palace.
He said even thought the land guards had left the palace he could still see some of them loitering in the area.
He said the invasion of the palace by the land guards was coordinated by the claimant and his men.
He said the group knew that the Ga Mantse's case was being heard today at Dodowa by the Ga Traditional Council and that was why they orchestrated the riot to advance their selfish agenda.
At the time the GNA was leaving the Ga Mantse's Place, the Police had beefed up security at the place to ensure law and order.